B.C. advocates worry empathy burnout could hurt clinically vulnerable

B.C. advocates worry empathy burnout could hurt clinically vulnerable

May 5, 2022 6:36 pm PST.

People don’t care about each other as much as they used to, that’s according to a Canada-wide survey. The findings about empathy burnout have some B.C. advocates particularly concerned for the clinically vulnerable. Ashley Burr reports.

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